Elsie LherissonMissionary to Haiti

Elsie Lherisson returned to her native homeland of Haiti to start a children’s ministry in the capital city of Port-au-Prince. The ministry has served the spiritual and physical needs of more than a thousand children and young people since 1996. Elsie’s ministry strives to equip young people for life and ministry. The ministry is also greatly concerned with the physical well-being and future of its youth. Since the ministry’s inception, thousands of children have been provided full healthy meals; many have had their education sponsored; families have received care packages; and many medical needs have been provided for. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere; therefore, its needs are great, but its potential is even greater.

Latest Ministry Update:October 2016

The month of October was very busy for them as it is the month when Haiti’s schools re-open following summer vacation. Nicolas Leger who grew up in the ministry is now the one leading the church. His wife Carina ministers to the children along with another sister named Kathiana. They are assisted by some of the younger girls who help in praise and worship, teaching the memory verse, praying, distributing snacks...God is using each one to build His church and they are all a great blessing. In November they were all able to attend further ministry training at the local Child Evangelism Fellowship not too far from the ministry. The thirty-six member kids' choir sings at the adult church once a month. The young adults' choir minister in songs the other Sundays. They baptized 5 young people - four young men and one young woman. Many friends and families came in big number to support them. Pastor Wilnick who is an associate to Pastor Jim Cartwright of Bethel Gospel Tabernacle presided the baptismal. The ministry teaches Sunday school and holds a Bible study on Friday afternoon for the older children and the adults. Sister Fatima meets with the kids every Friday afternoon for Good News Club. The feeding program continues to run from Monday to Friday all through the school year and they are currently feeding sixty. They were so thankful for the last barrels received as they contained a significant amount of bags of rice, canned fish and canned beans which were all a great blessing. The Evangelistic Outreach team goes out once a month during the school year, usually the last Saturday of the month. Most of them have to attend school on Saturdays, so they can only go once a month. This is a very energetic team, very passionate about Evangelism and the Lord always meets them as they go "fishing for men". The youth have been busy preparing ahead for Christmas. They are a great help to Carina and Kathiana as well as they love conceiving and putting together different activities for the children during Christmas and Easter. The after school tutoring program is going well as they have a lot of volunteers coaching the children and youth in better understanding their subjects whether it is Math, French, History, Physics, Chemistry.... For the little ones: they get help in reading, writing, arithmetic... They also have a mentoring program to help some of the younger children whose parents are really not there for them. They pair older girls with younger ones and older boys with younger ones and that has been bringing some positive results. They have begun to see the changes in their behavior.

Praise Reports:

There were able to sponsor 30 students in all this year – 26 in grade through high school, and 4 in college.

Jeff-Reynald Charlot was offered a scholarship to receive further ministry training at a school called "Catch the Fire" in Ontario. He’s been there for a month and a half now and is doing real well.

Prayer Requests:

Please pray as they go forward with the transition for Nicolas to eventually step up to full-time in the ministry.

Please pray for the spiritual growth of all the boys and girls along with the young men and young women and the adults that they serve.